Gill & Pete (well, mostly Gill) explain King Henry VIII's dating history and why he just didn't seem to have the best luck in his love life. How each marriage ended, why some of his relationships were "cut short" and how the rhyme "Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived" should have actually gone and why Catherine Parr was the only wife to make it to the 19th hole.

Also we answer our avid listener's question of where the phrase "Chew The Fat" comes from... or at least we try...

References from this episode:

https://www.livescience.com/53662-king-henry-viii-head-injuries-behavior.html

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0967586815006803

https://englishhistory.net/tudor/monarchs/henry-viii-wives/

Royal museums Greenwich

Book - The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Alison Weir

https://www.tudorhistory.org/wives/

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